In March, two once-active cranberry bogs off Headwaters Drive in Harwich began a journey back to the wild. Excavators began to scoop out the cranberry vines and sand from the bogs. The ground was ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. State officials on Tuesday announced $6 million in grants for cranberry bog and coastal wetland restoration projects to help ...

Poking holes in the sea floor that used to be part of the Bering Land Bridge, researchers have found that large swaths of it were floodplains pocked with bogs and ponds that may have restricted ...

Excavation work began last month to restore a 40-acre Nantucket cranberry bog to naturally functioning wetlands. The project at Windswept Bog, off Polpis Road, is the largest-ever restoration ...

A pair of old cranberry bogs on the east side of Santuit Pond in Mashpee are about to undergo a transformation: from manicured agricultural acreage back to a wild, freshwater wetlands landscape.

A recent TV ad features three guys lost in the woods, debating whether they should’ve taken a turn at a pond, which one guy argues is a marsh. “Let’s not pretend you know what a marsh is,” the other ...

A man was injured at a South Side bar and rushed to a local hospital in critical condition on Wednesday night. CARVER, Mass. – About this time of the year, Jarrod Rhodes should be checking on the ...

Midsummer in New England is just like how you or I might emerge from bed in the morning — a hot mess. The ground, which was frozen solid just a few months ago, has become a goopy porridge of mud and ...

For sale: One acre of a pond near Twig, ringed with cattails and home to dragonflies, to be preserved as wetland in perpetuity. Asking price: $52,000. Sold: Hundreds of similar acres each year to ...

Peat bogs store twice as much CO 2 as all of the world's forests combined. A new research center at the University of Copenhagen will map Earth’s wetlands and provide important knowledge about the ...

CARVER, Massachusetts — About this time of the year, Jarrod Rhodes should be checking on the vines of cranberries that have grown on his bog for decades in southeastern Massachusetts. Instead, he is ...